The hawthorn is highly recommended for all those who want to border their garden with a decorative flowering hedge. It not only gives off an attractive and floriferous picture of flowers, but also has the best enclosure properties. We will show you which ones below.
Hawthorn is very suitable as a hedge plant
The somewhat more distinctive hawthorn variant
The hawthorn is well known from the wild. The many species of the Crataegus rose family are widespread throughout Europe and adorn the edges of fields and meadows or light forest bushes with their thorny, gnarled appearance and their delicate foliage and blossoms.
All red-flowering variants of hawthorn are known as hawthorns, whereby only the cultivar 'Paul's Scarlet' of the two-pronged hawthorn Crataegus laevigata is considered to be the real hawthorn. Like hawthorn, its flowers stand together in corymbs. However, their crimson color and full character make them look like small roses - this gives the hawthorn a slightly more elegant, less plain character compared to the hawthorn with its simple, white flowers.
So if you want to give your garden hedge a little fancy chic without being bulky, we recommend the real hawthorn.
Hedge suitability still and still
The practical advantages of hawthorn:
- Best containment qualities
- Easy-care
- Hardly limited planting period
Good enclosure qualities
Apart from the flowers that appear in May and June, the common hawthorn brings you a number of other, more practical advantages. On the one hand, it is ideal as a garden border due to its richly branched branch system, which is reinforced with sharp thorns. He naturally keeps strange cats or dogs away and doesn't necessarily invite human intruders to mess with him. For birds, on the other hand, the branch offers a well-protected nesting area, which should be very welcome for every hobby gardener.
Uncomplicated maintenance
For a practical garden boundary purpose, a hedge plant shouldn't be much work. After all, that's what the decorative and useful plants in the beds and tubs are there for… in this respect, too, the hawthorn is a grateful fellow. Basically, all it needs is a sunny location, nutrient-rich, freshly moist soil and a pruning every year, preferably immediately after flowering.
plants made easy
Even planting does not require special precautions. You can plant all year round as long as there is no frost. Calculate about 3 plants per linear meter for a hedge.